Carol LeeBallet in Western Culture
A History of Its Origins and Evolution
Carol Lee established the ballet program at Florida State University in 1965, and has also taught ballet as a guest professor at universities throughout the US and around the world. She has choreographed works for the Tampa Ballet.
Part One: From Folk Expression to Seventeenth Century Court Dance 1.
Origins of Dance 2. Renaissance Spectacle in Italy 3. The Ballet de Cour in
France. Part Two: Emergence of Ballet as an Art Form: Seventeenth to
Ninteeenth Century 4. Baroque Ballet 5. The Advamncement of Professional
Ballet 6. Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet 7. The Foundations of
Romantic Ballet 8. The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet 9. The Evolution
of Ballet in Russia 10. Imperial Russian Ballet Part Three: The Flourishing
of Ballet in the Twentieth Century 11. Sergie Diaghilev and the New Dance
12. The Ballet Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism
13. Ballet in the Twentieth Century 14. The Development of Ballet in the
United States. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Ballets. Index
